What is AWS Vault actually used for?

Question

As per the Documentation, where it says:

AWS Vault is a tool to securely store and access AWS credentials in a development environment.

AWS Vault stores IAM credentials in your operating system's secure keystore and then generates temporary credentials from those to expose to your shell and applications. It's designed to be complementary to the AWS CLI tools, and is aware of your

But what it actually means? As a developer does this mean to create a kind of lock that prevents anyone from using the codes without the AWS-vault profile? When should I use this? I want to know a bit more about it, Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

Actually, it doesn't have anything that is related to development.

While working with Amazon managed services we can make use of IAM roles but that doesn't work when you're doing it from our local environment or from some other Cloud VM like accessing an S3 bucket. It comes in handy when you're working with AWS CLI or even writing terraform for your environment. It is just for a precaution so that we don't expose or IAM credentials to the external world (you will receive a notification from Amazon whenever your keys are compromised). There are many other ways as well to make sure your keys don't get compromised like before pushing your code to a version control use git-secrets to make sure you don't push any sensitive information.

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